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Scissor sweep

A basic sweep from closed guard. You put a shin across their body, pull their weight onto it and chop their base leg out with your other leg.

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Key steps

  1. Take a collar grip and a sleeve grip, then unlock your ankles.
  2. Shrimp your hips out to an angle and slide your top shin across their belly.
  3. Drop your bottom leg flat to the mat just behind their knee on that side.
  4. Pull on the sleeve and collar to load their weight onto your shin.
  5. Kick your top leg over and chop your bottom leg back to scissor them down.
  6. Follow them as they roll over and settle on top in mount with your base wide.

Key details

  • Fold their posture and load their weight onto your shin before you chop, or the sweep stalls.
  • Keep the sleeve arm pulled across so they can't post it on the side they fall to.
  • Chop at the back of the knee, since chopping the ankle leaves them room to step.